Beach front poles at Daytona Hard Rock consist of cancer-leading to pesticide

DAYTONA BEACH — Volusia County Chair Jeff Brower is set to meet with the owner of the Challenging Rock Hotel after snubbing the Daytona Beach front vacation resort in excess of its seaside driving constraints earlier this 7 days.

The stretch of beach behind Daytona's Hard Rock Hotel is a no-drive zone, blocked off by these poles.

Brower, who pledged to make preserving beach driving a precedence after his November election get, declined an invite to communicate at an event at the Really hard Rock simply because of poles on the beach front that prevent driving on a 410-foot extend of sand driving the resort.

“I am not accomplishing anything at the Hard Rock until they remove the poison poles on our seaside and give Volusia citizens our seashore back again. This is hurting our tourism,” Brower wrote Tuesday in an e-mail received by the Information-Journal.

The “poison” Brower referred to in his email is a chemical made use of to take care of the poles that is made up of carcinogens, in accordance to the Florida Division of Agriculture and Purchaser Products and services.